In the afternoon we went up to the Manatee Festival in Crystal River which is less about manatees and more just an excuse to bring out the craft vendors and the food trucks. Still, we shopped the places and found some things we liked: wooden kitchen spoons, three fine cast iron hooks with fish design, our favorite pepper and herb blend and a garlic blend as well from the same organic producer. We ate some really wonderful chicken on a stick done with curry over the grill and some decadent potato chips done from potatos cut into ribbons. Both were very good and surpassed the usual fair foods. The ribbon cutting of the potatos meant that when they came out of the deep fryer, they were easy to serve, and then they sat at angles so the oil ran off and the chips crisped up. I have never had these before.
I took a few photos:
Here we are at the pier overlooking Crystal River. We thought Peter might like seeing this place.
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After our Festival walk, we went up to Shelly's Fish Market and bought the last of their floater stone crab, some marlin steaks, a bit of sheepshead, and some yellow tail snapper like I used to eat when I worked that summer with Tom in Key West.
We were tired.
So we stopped at the Olive Tree Greek restaurant for spanikopita and prime rib. The beef was good, but the pie was a bit strong tasting and not done the way we like it.
Live keyboard music played while we ate, but it was pretty noisy and few cared to listen but talked over the sounds.
We stopped too at Sweetbay and bought some groceries. At home I made some orange juice popcycles using Tuvia as a sweetener with half juice and half water run in a blender to evenly distribute the Tuvia. fozen in a plastic cup with a wooden stick. Tastes just great.
I took a few photos:
Here we are at the pier overlooking Crystal River. We thought Peter might like seeing this place.
The bag we are carrying is a Filipino design that Bernadette's mom gave us in Chicago.
There is a museum in Crystal River that collected just a few arifacts from the area and we toured it. This is an old pencil sharpener, state of the art in its time.
This is not what it looks like at first glance. It is a scale for measuring fish.
This takes fish bones to an entirely new level.
Of course during spring training all the Yankee greats came this way. I wonder if Dad was ever in Crystal River.
Filmed in the Area at a very different time in America.
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After our Festival walk, we went up to Shelly's Fish Market and bought the last of their floater stone crab, some marlin steaks, a bit of sheepshead, and some yellow tail snapper like I used to eat when I worked that summer with Tom in Key West.
We were tired.
So we stopped at the Olive Tree Greek restaurant for spanikopita and prime rib. The beef was good, but the pie was a bit strong tasting and not done the way we like it.
Live keyboard music played while we ate, but it was pretty noisy and few cared to listen but talked over the sounds.
We stopped too at Sweetbay and bought some groceries. At home I made some orange juice popcycles using Tuvia as a sweetener with half juice and half water run in a blender to evenly distribute the Tuvia. fozen in a plastic cup with a wooden stick. Tastes just great.
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